All the winners from the 2023 Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the 2023 edition of the Oscars last night. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer won big on the night, taking home seven awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. Emma Stone took home the Best Actress statuette for Poor Things, with the movie raking in Best Production Design, Makeup, […]
Blxckie set to tour with Bas in March
Def Jam Recordings – not Africa – latest signee and award-winning rapper Blxckie has been confirmed as one of the acts set to join American artist Bas at his upcoming U.S. tour this March 2024. For the album We Only Talk About Real Sh*t When We’re F*cked Up released this past December, Blxckie will tour […]
Morda and Brenden Praise feature on The Color Purple soundtrack
Producer and DJ, Morda, together with vocalist Brenden Praise have featured on the original soundtrack for The Color Purple. The Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Alice Walker was first adapted into Steven Spielberg’s critically acclaimed film in 1985 before its 2023 iteration starring Fantasia, Jennifer Hudson, and Taraji P Henson. The soundtrack went live this past […]
Spotify Wrapped The Year With Its Party At 1 Fox
If you enjoyed the Spotify Wrapped function – the campaign that allows Spotify users to view a compilation of data about their activity on the platform over the past year and invites them to share it on social media – on the music streaming site, they took it to the next level with an in-real-life […]
South African creatives light up adidas Originals campaign
South African creatives who have played integral roles at the forefront of culture are the the faces lit up by adidas’ new Originals campaign. This comes following the successful global launch of “We Gave the World an Original. You Gave Us a Thousand Back,” which celebrates three adidas original silhouettes. To highlight the three original […]
Ch’cco and Pabi Cooper take to NYC billboards with Spotify x FC Barcelona collaboration
Music and football work symbiotically in the Spotify partnership with FC Barcelona. The global streaming service is the football club’s main sponsor, and has come up with unique and interesting ways to profile the best of both brands and tap into the club’s global fanbase. In October last year they began the limited edition football […]
Apple Music Radio shows are now included in Apple podcasts
Apple is bringing the music to podcasts as subscribers now have the option to listen to their favourite Apple Music Radio shows on the podcast app. That includes Africa Now with Nandi Madida, The Zane Lowe Show, and Rap Life Radio. Apple Music produces an array of award-winning programming spanning genres and formats, including anchor […]
The UJ Art Gallery and the MTN SA Foundation come together for re/connect/ing art exhibition
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) Art Gallery and the MTN SA Foundation have announced their latest collaboration, the re/connect/ing exhibition. The fourth instalment of its kind between the two entities, the partnership aims to explore significant themes derived from South Africa’s contemporary social landscape. In 2017 the first collaborated exhibition titled Shifting Conversations, addressed the […]
Basketball Without Borders celebrate 20 years in Africa with stars Bam Adebayo, Darius Garland , Jalen Suggs and Jonathan Kuminga
NBA and FIBA have returned to South Africa for the 20th anniversary of Basketball Without Borders and have brought quite a number of basketball heavyweights along to the development camp. BWB is an ongoing initiative that brings together high-school prospects from 25 African countries to learn directly from current and former NBA, WNBA and FIBA […]
Burna Boy tour comes to South Africa in September
Burna Boy has been on a whirlwind worldwide stadium tour over the past few months. The Nigerian hitmaker has now included South Africa as one of the stops on the tour calendar. The singer/songwriter headlined the DStv Delicious festival last year, to a packed Kyalami audience. The crowd, longing for a show from the artist […]
Drake goes on tour for the first time since 2018 and Kabza de Small is co-producing the show
Drake took to the stage for the first show in his new “It’s All A Blur” tour with 21 Savage last night. The Chicago show marked the first time Drake’s been on the road since 2018. He took to his Instagram stories to announce that the show is produced by long-time collaborators Noah “40” Shebib […]
African Ginger breathes new life into inner city basketball court
African Ginger has collaborated with Hennessy to breathe new life into the Ernest Oppenheimer Park basketball court in Joburg’s inner city. The court was refurbished and Pimentel painted a signature piece onto the surface of it, bringing his unique design style to a sporting and cultural hub in central Joburg. The initiative marks the latest […]